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Save Drawing Sheets as DXF Example (VBA)

This example shows how to save multiple drawings sheets as DXF files.

 

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'

' Preconditions:

'       (1) Drawing doument is open.

'       (2) Drawing contains at least one sheet.

'

' Postconditions:

'       (1) DXF file is generated for each sheet,

'           overwriting any existing file

'       (2) DXF file names are based on the sheet name, for example Sheet1

'           saved as Sheet1.dxf, Sheet2 is saved as Sheet2.dxf, and so on.

'

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Option Explicit

Public Enum swSaveAsVersion_e

    swSaveAsCurrentVersion = 0  '  default

    swSaveAsFormatProE = 2      '  save SolidWorks part as Pro/E format

                                '  .prt/.asm extension (not as SolidWorks.prt/.asm)

End Enum

Public Enum swSaveAsOptions_e

    swSaveAsOptions_Silent = &H1            '  Save document silently or not

    swSaveAsOptions_Copy = &H2              '  Save document as a copy or not

    swSaveAsOptions_SaveReferenced = &H4    '  Save referenced documents or not (drawings and parts only)

End Enum

Public Enum swFileSaveError_e

    swGenericSaveError = &H1

    swReadOnlySaveError = &H2

    swFileNameEmpty = &H4                       '  The filename cannot be empty

    swFileNameContainsAtSign = &H8              '  The filename cannot contain an the at-sign character (@)

    swFileLockError = &H10

    swFileSaveFormatNotAvailable = &H20         '  The Save As file type is not valid

    swFileSaveAsDoNotOverwrite = &H80           '  The user chose not to overwrite an existing file

    swFileSaveAsInvalidFileExtension = &H100    '  The file extension differs from the SolidWorks document type

End Enum

Public Enum swFileSaveWarning_e

    swFileSaveWarning_RebuildError = &H1    '  The file was saved with a rebuild error

End Enum

Public Enum swDxfFormat_e

    swDxfFormat_R12 = 0

    swDxfFormat_R13 = 1

    swDxfFormat_R14 = 2

    swDxfFormat_R2000 = 3

End Enum

Public Enum swArrowDirection_e

    swINSIDE = 0

    swOUTSIDE = 1

    swSMART = 2

End Enum

Public Enum swUserPreferenceToggle_e

    swDxfMapping = 8

    swDXFDontShowMap = 21

End Enum

    

Public Enum swUserPreferenceIntegerValue_e

    swDxfVersion = 0

    swDxfOutputFonts = 1

    swDxfMappingFileIndex = 2

    swDxfOutputLineStyles = 135

    swDxfOutputNoScale = 136

End Enum

Public Enum swUserPreferenceDoubleValue_e

    swDxfOutputScaleFactor = 79

End Enum

Public Enum swUserPreferenceStringListValue_e

    swDxfMappingFiles = 0

End Enum

Sub main()

    Dim swApp                       As SldWorks.SldWorks

    Dim swModel                     As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

    Dim swDraw                      As SldWorks.DrawingDoc

    Dim vSheetName                  As Variant

    Dim nErrors                     As Long

    Dim nWarnings                   As Long

    Dim nRetval                     As Long

    Dim bShowMap                    As Boolean

    Dim nNumSheet                   As Long

    Dim i                           As Long

    Dim bRet                        As Boolean

    

    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

    Set swDraw = swModel

    

    ' Current settings

    Debug.Print "DxfMapping             = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceToggle(swDxfMapping)

    Debug.Print "DXFDontShowMap         = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceToggle(swDXFDontShowMap)

    

    Debug.Print "DxfVersion             = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swDxfVersion)

    Debug.Print "DxfOutputFonts         = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swDxfOutputFonts)

    Debug.Print "DxfMappingFileIndex    = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swDxfMappingFileIndex)

    Debug.Print "DxfOutputLineStyles    = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swDxfOutputLineStyles)

    Debug.Print "DxfOutputNoScale       = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swDxfOutputNoScale)

    

    Debug.Print "DxfOutputScaleFactor   = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceDoubleValue(swDxfOutputScaleFactor)

    

    Debug.Print "DxfMappingFiles        = " & swApp.GetUserPreferenceStringListValue(swDxfMappingFiles)

    

    Debug.Print ""

        

    

    ' Turn off showing of map

    swApp.SetUserPreferenceToggle swDXFDontShowMap, True

    

    

    vSheetName = swDraw.GetSheetNames

    For i = 0 To UBound(vSheetName)

        bRet = swDraw.ActivateSheet(vSheetName(i))

    

        bRet = swModel.SaveAs4( _

                vSheetName(i) & ".dxf", _

                swSaveAsCurrentVersion, _

                swSaveAsOptions_Silent, _

                nErrors, _

                nWarnings)

        Debug.Assert bRet

    Next i

    ' Switch back to first sheet

    bRet = swDraw.ActivateSheet(vSheetName(0))

    ' Restore old setting

    swApp.SetUserPreferenceToggle swDXFDontShowMap, bShowMap

End Sub

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